Bessie Smith was born on April 15th, 1894 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In her teens, Bessie ran away from a life of poverty and joined a traveling show as a dancer and in 1912 began singing blues in the same show. Smith's real success began with her first record "Down Hearted Blues" in 1923. In 1937 Smith was working on making a comeback and was en route to Mississippi when she and Richard Morgan crashed into a truck that had pulled to the side of an unlit road. she sustained injuries to an arm and sadly died ten hours after hospital admission.
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